Moon Express, Inc.

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Moon Express, Inc.

Pioneering the Lunar Frontier
Canadian Space Commerce Association
7 March 2013
Version
1 1212a
www.moonexpress.com
Proprietary Information
© 2012 Moon Express, Inc.
MOON EXPRESS, INC.
A commercial lunar resources company competing in the $30M
Google Lunar X PRIZE and selected by NASA for its $30M
commercial lunar program.
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Welcome To Moon Express!
People + Technology + Resources
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The Founders
Naveen Jain
Founder, Intelius
Founder, InfoSpace
Trustee, Singularity
University
Barney Pell
Founder, Powerset
NASA DS-1 Mission
Trustee, Singularity
University
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Bob Richards
Space Entrepreneur;
Phoenix Mars Mission;
Co-Founder & Trustee,
International Space
University &
Singularity University
The Executive Team
Board
Naveen Jain
Cofounder, Chairman
inome, Infospace, Microsoft
X PRIZE, World Innovation Institute
Dr. Robert (Bob) Richards
Cofounder, Pres & CEO
Mars Phoenix, XSS-11
ISU, Singularity U, Optech
Dr. Barney Pell
Cofounder, Vice Chairman
NASA Ames/Deep Space -1
PowerSet, QuickPay
Tech • Biz
Dr. James (Jimi) Crawford
CTO & SW Architect
Google, Mars Exploration
Rovers (Spirit, Opportunity)
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Tim Pickens
Chief Propulsion Engineer
Jim Cantrell
VP Flight Programs
SpaceShipOne (propulsion lead), Dynetics, JPL, CNES, SpaceX, Cosmos 1
Orion Propulsion, Bigelow Aerospace
Space Dynamics Laboratory
Michael Tanne
VP Strategic
Daven Maharaj
VP Operations
AdForce, Xdegrees, Verity
LinkedIn, ICON Aircraft
Mars Phoenix, XSS-11
Space Shuttle, Optech
Veteran Technical Leads
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Tim Pickens
Chief Propulsion Engineer
Dr. James (Jimi) Crawford
CTO & SW Architect
Steve Bailey
Principal Systems Engineer
SpaceShipOne (propulsion lead), Dynetics,
Orion Propulsion, Bigelow Aerospace
Google, Mars Exploration
Rovers (Spirit, Opportunity)
Orion, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter,
Pathfinder, Artemis lander, Space Shuttle
Adrian Adamson
Principal Avionics Engineer
Jim Kaidy
Principal GNC Engineer
Tom Gardner
Principal Mission Engineer
Orion, Hubble Servicing, MoonRise,
MRO, Phoenix, Odyssey Orbiter
New Horizons, Messenger,
LunarQuest
Lunar Explorer, Ares 1, EKV,
Mars Explorer, Lunar Prospector
Vibrant MOONHACKERS
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Staff Demographics
~25 STAFF ON PAYROLL AS OF Q4 2012
DEGREES
Bachelors
Masters
PhDs
Moon Express Team experience totals over 100
missions to most destinations in the Solar System:
39%
43%
17%
Deep Space
Under 30
Space Exp
Missions
61%
~168 yrs
~111
Moon
Asteroids
Mars
Earth Orbit
Phobos
Space Station
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Venus
Mercury
Jupiter
Pluto
Strategic Location & Facilities
@ NASA Ames Research Park
Lander Test
Facility &
Lander Test
Vehicle
MoonEx
Offices &
Engineering
Labs
NASA Lunar
Science
Institute
Singularity
University
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The Opportunity
The Moon has long been
thought to have massive
opportunities for economic
value for Earth, including
resources and a base for inspace manufacturing and R&D.
But the political will and
economics were not ready during
the last 40 years since Apollo.
New conditions create an opportunity for commercial exploitation…
The Technology, Science, Economics, and Politics are now right.
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The Opportunity
China will sending a lander to
the Moon in late 2013 – and
plans to build a Moon base.
Russia has announced plans to
return to the Moon and also build
a Moon base.
Europe, Japan and India have all
successfully sent lunar orbiters to
the Moon in the last decade.
The US currently has only one small orbiter mission planned in 2013.
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The Opportunity
But the White House
has embraced
commercial space
transportation and
NASA has partnered
with Moon Express to
put the US back on
the Moon.
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The Opportunity
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Major Moon Markets
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Major Moon Markets
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Delivery of science & commercial payloads
Supporting NASA & international exploration
Resource prospecting & mining operations
Facilitating space-based solar power
Space-based manufacturing, research and development
Space tourism & Entertainment
Sample return for science and vanity markets
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How Much is a Moonrock?
~$2M per gram
in 1993 dollars
(~$3.2M per gram
in 2012 dollars)
Allowing for a 2/3
market dilution, a
1 kilogram lunar
sample returned
to Earth could be
worth >$1B today
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Known Lunar Resources
• Water for rocket fuel and in-space life support
– Moon-based fuel production transforms economics of space
• Precious metals
– Platinum is crucial for fuel cells, cleantech, oil refining
– Paladium, Osmium, Gold all have high value
• Rare earth elements
– Lithium is crucial for batteries, cellphones and much more
– China is hoarding these, and new sources will have high value
• Helium-3
– H-3 is required for fusion systems in development, and medicine
• Industrial metals (like aluminum) for earth-orbit construction
– Massively cheaper than launching materials from Earth
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Why Are There Lunar Resources?
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The Moon is an Asteroid Magnet
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Technology
There are four disruptive technology
areas that lead to our opportunity:
1. Commercial Launchers
2. Avionics micro-miniaturization
3. DoD propulsion systems
4. NASA Common Spacecraft Bus (CSB)
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1. Commercial Launches
Commercial launches (e.g. SpaceX) lower cost and
raise opportunities for medium-lift-to-moon vicinity
Athena 2 (Lockheed)
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Falcon 9 (SpaceX)
Taurus (Orbital)
2. Micro-Miniaturization
Micro-miniaturization of spacecraft
technologies (e.g. avionics & power)
substantially lower cost and increase
value and opportunity of small spacecraft
doing big things.
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3. DoD Propulsion Systems
Commercially available highthrust, lightweight proposition
systems from US DoD offer
proven hardware and software
technology systems ideal for
autonomous cost and fuelefficient precision lunar landing
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NFIRE System
4. Common Spacecraft Bus
NASA’s Common Spacecraft Bus
(CSB) offers low cost reuse of
modular platform for lunar and other
space missions, covering design,
software, testing, and operations
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Science
• Planetary data system makes all lunar data available for
analysis and mining
• Discovery of significant water on the moon enhances
economics of rocket fuel production
• Science of asteroid impacts reveals value of lunar mining
opportunities for precious metals
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Economics
• Shift to private/public partnerships
creates new opportunities for
commercial space
• Success of SpaceX and likely IPO in
next 2 years creates investment halo
for space ventures
• Costs of energy resources and
precious metals have multiplied
• Costs of H-3 has multiplied for
medical applications, with further
increase potential for fusion market
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Politics
• A new international space race is emerging,
centered on the Moon
• China, Russia, Japan, India & Europe are all
making significant efforts to explore the Moon &
build a Moon base in next 10-15 years
• US policy has been to reduce space costs but to
encourage private sector as a customer
• Climate change fears and energy challenges have
prompted large-scale infrastructure investments
• Mining on Earth subject to tensions between
resource production and environmental
pressures
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NASA: Our Customer
• Moon Express was selected by NASA in
2010 as one of only six US companies
eligible for its $30M Innovative Lunar
Demonstrations Data (ILDD) program
• Moon Express ranked first among all
companies, scoring the highest possible
grades in all evaluation categories
Buzz Aldrin signing CSB HTV
• Moon Express was one of only three ILDD
contractors selected for initial funding,
and one of two who successfully
completed the latest ILDD milestone
• Moon Express has since acquired two of
the three active GLXP-ILDD teams
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NASA: Our Partner
Moon Express entered into a partnership with NASA in October
2010 for the development of its robotic lunar lander system.
Moon Express and NASA Ames
recommissioned a lander test
vehicle and facilities as the
baseline for the Moon Express
lunar lander.
Moon Express is harvesting
$MM of technology transfer
and IP rights from NASA under
this unique partnership.
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Dr. Alan Weston, NASA Ames Director of Programs
Welcomes the Moon Express engineering team to NASA
Ames during a Mission Management Review meeting.
$30M Lunar X PRIZE
Sponsored by
Google and
managed by
the X PRIZE
Foundation
$20M Grand
Prize to first
private team
to land on
Moon, travel
500 meters
and broadcast
HD images and
video to Earth
A follow-on
challenge to
the successful
$10M Ansari
X PRIZE for
the first
private
spaceship
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Moon Express
was announced
as an official
contender on
Oct. 26th, 2010
Moon Express is
ranked among the
Top 10 “newspace”
companies alongside
SpaceX, Virgin
Galactic and others
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MoonEx Lander Test Vehicle (LTV)
(derived from NASA Ames HTV/CSB)
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MoonEx Lander Test Facility (LTF)
(commissioned in partnership with NASA)
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LADEE Orbiter Vehicle
(Our sister-spacecraft at NASA Ames)
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(Our sister-spacecraft at NASA Ames)
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(Our sister-spacecraft launching Aug 13)
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1st Private Moon Landing
2015
Moon Express uses cubesat
technology in a micro-hopper
solution to mobility
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We’re Going
to the Moon!
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Moon Express, Inc.

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